The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 207
The Second Kalandar’s Tale.

The "Ebony" Islands; Scott's "Isle of Ebene," i., 217.

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…ase appeared to her exceeding grievous; so she wept and said, "I will tell thee my story in my turn. I am the daughter of the King Ifitamus, lord of the Islands of Abnus,[FN#207] who married me to my cousin, the son of my paternal uncle; but on my wedding night an Ifrit named Jirjís[FN#208] bin Rajmús, first cousin that is, mother's sister's son, of Iblís, the Foul Fiend, snatched me up and, flying away with me like a bird, se…

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